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ISRAEL LEWIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PNEUMATIC CIGAR-WRAPPER FORMING AND ROLLING BOARD AND TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,937, dated october 31, 1899.

Application mea Apri111, 1899. serial no. 712,583. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, ISRAEL LEWIS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Pneumatic Cigar-'Wrapper Forming and Rolling Board and Table, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved pneu matic cigar wrapper forming and rolling board and table.

The essential feature of the invention relates to the combination, with the pneumatic chamber of the rolling-board, of a perforated top plate made with a restricted perforated portion or provided with an auxiliary plate restricting the pneumatic power over any other.

bottom surface of the tobacco-leaf except that portion of the same which is used for the wrapping of the cigar. By this means the shape of the wrapper is clearly indicated upon the top side of the leaf for cutting it, and the wrapper while cutting is held superior and uniformly iirm upon the board, the wrappers are cut quickly, large numbers are cut uniformly and correctly, and many saved from being spoiled. f

Other features will be pointed out in the specification and claims.

In the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure I represents a vertical longitudinal section of the pneumatic rolling board and table constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, showing a left-hand Wrapper in dotted line upon the table. Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssection of the same, omitting the lower part of the table. Fig. 4 is a detached top View of my automatic indicating-plate of the same. Fig. 5 is a top view of the same with a righthand rolling wrapper spread upon itI and shown in full lines.

The letter of reference A indicates the table, with a large opening, in which the longitudinal square-ended rolling-board Bis inlaid and secured. The top plate a of the board B is made with a large number of suitable closely-distributed small perforations t', and on the under side of said top plate is provided a flat horizontal shallow right-angular air-chamber D with a fiat bottom, tothe under side of which is attached a central airpipe E, connecting through an opening in said bottom with the space of the chamber D, and said air-pipe has a valve E with an arbor projecting through one side of the pipe and having two opposite arms, one of which carries a balance-weight G, and the other is connected to a treadle J, hinged to the iioor, so that the valve F is opened by the operators foot upon the treadle J, and that by releasing the treadle the balance-weight G raises the treadle and closes the valve F. Said air-pipe is connected to a vacuum-pump, exhauster, or vacuum storage-tank to exhaust the air from the chamber D. Close underneath the top plate ot is employed a dividing or indicating plate O with a handle K, resting upon inward flanges N, formed on the sides of the chamber D. Said plate O slides readily in lateral direc'- tion in and out from said chamber D and has alarge opening L through it, the form of which is the shape and dimension of the outline of the wrapper to be cut for the desired cigar to be covered, so that by this means when the plate C is properly located all the several perforations i exposed to the opening L in the plate C communicate the vacuum from the chamber D to the wrapper-leaf over all said .exposed perforations t', and thereby the said wrapper is held down by the atmospheric pressure over the top of the leaf upon the top side of the plate C, but only upon the portion of the leaf over the opening L, and all of the remaining top surface of theleaf is not affected by said pressure and lies loose over the plate, clearly and distinctly indicating the outline b c d e of the opening L in the plate C, which is a facsimile of the outline of the wrapper to be cut, and shown in Figs. 2 and 4 in heavy dotted line b c d e and in full line in Fig. 4 and in the profile of the leaf shown over the board B in Figs. l and 3, showing the smooth part of the leaf over the opening L from b to d and the rough parts before and beyond said opening. At the line b c CZ e the wrapper is cut by the operator with the ordinary cigarlen'ifewhile it is held down by said air-pressure and is therefore easy to cut without tearing the same, it being moist and held so perfectly. After Ithe cutting of the wrapper the trimmings are removed and the cigar is rolled IOO in the Wrapper by hand. As from each leaf of tobacco are cut a right-hand rolling-Wrapper and a left-hand Wrapper, the plate G is used for one kind on one side and is turned over for the other, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5.

For diiferent sizes of wrappers a number of plates C with larger and smaller openings L are provided. separate from the top plate a said top plate may be movable and interchangeable and the perforations t' may only cover the surface of the Wrapper.

From the foregoing it will be evident that by cutting the Wrapper while held upon the plate to the extent of its cutting-line so perfectly at its cutting-line-much superior to holding the same by hand-or at parts outside of its cutting-line many Wrapper-leaves are saved from being spoiled by my improvement, and the Wrappers are easily cut correctly and uniformly in large numbers Without Waste and With more rapidity than by hand, as now done, or by holding the leaf outside beyond its cutting-line and the trimmings are removed with less difculty.

Instead of having a plate C' What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a rolling-board for cigars, the combination with a p neumatic chamber having a perforated top plate, of a dividing-plate O with the openin g L restricting the pneumatic power to the surface of the Wrapper portion of the leaf of tobacco, substantially as herein set forth.

2. In a rolling board and table for cigars the combination comprising a pneumatic chamber D with a perforated top plate a, a revertible, changeable dividing-plate C with a Wrapper-outline opening L,thechamberD provided With the vacuum-pipe E provided with the stop-valves F and connected to the treadle J, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, this Sth day of April, A. D. 1899.

ISRAEL LEWIS.

I'Vitnesses:

JOSEPH DELA MAR, ABRAHAM WEINSTEIN. 

